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Delta names Greg Kennedy vice president-Airport Customer Service West



ASA names Carmine Testa vice president-Atlanta Airport

    ATLANTA, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE:   DAL) and
 Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA), its wholly owned Delta Connection
 subsidiary, today named two company veterans to key operational roles.
     Delta named Gregory W. "Greg" Kennedy vice president - Airport Customer
 Service West, replacing Paulette Corbin, who had been promoted to senior vice
 president - In-Flight Service. At the same time, ASA named Carmine Testa,
 currently Delta's field director - Airport Customer Service (Florida), as vice
 president - Atlanta Airport, replacing Kennedy.
     "It is a great pleasure to recognize Greg Kennedy for the excellent work
 he has done at ASA and in other areas of the Delta organization over the past
 19 years with this well-deserved promotion," said Rich Cordell, Delta's senior
 vice president - Airport Customer Service. "Greg is known for his unique
 ability to engage employees at all levels and for his visible leadership
 style."
     In his new position, Kennedy will lead 55 Delta stations with more than
 4,000 employees across the West and Midwest.
     At ASA, Testa will continue Kennedy's work to build the airline's Atlanta
 flight hub, its biggest, into a showcase for excellent operations and customer
 service.
     "Carmine is a creative leader with a proven record of results in Delta's
 Airport Customer Service organization," said Bryan LaBrecque, ASA's senior
 vice president - Ground Operations.  "Carmine will continue to improve ASA's
 service quality at its largest hub by leading programs to increase employee
 engagement, improve our facilities and increase operational reliability."
     Since 2003, ASA has boosted operational performance at Atlanta to the
 highest levels in history. Through May 2004, ASA on-time flight departures are
 nine percent improved over the same period last year, with mishandled baggage
 claims 25 percent improved.
     "We are working to build a winning organization in Atlanta that focuses on
 the importance of our hometown hub," LaBrecque said. "Greg Kennedy has played
 an important role in ASA's improvements at Atlanta over the last nine months
 and we look forward to continuing this momentum with Carmine Testa's
 leadership and enthusiasm."
     Greg Kennedy served as ACS field director in Cincinnati before joining ASA
 last year.  He has also held the positions of Airport Coordination Center
 manager and Ramp Services manager in Atlanta as well as Airport Coordination
 Center manager in Salt Lake City. Kennedy is a graduate of the University of
 Utah, with a B.S. in Business Management. He and his wife Pamela have four
 children and will reside in Salt Lake City.
     Carmine Testa has more than 28 years of experience at Delta, including
 assignments as interim director of the New York (JFK) station, ACS regional
 director - Southeast Region, general manager - Delta Express, and ACS manager
 at the Orlando and Atlanta hubs. In Atlanta, Carmine led a team of more than
 600 Delta ACS employees on A and T Concourses between November 2000 and
 December 2001. He also has played key roles in the development of Delta low-
 fare products Song and Delta Express. He and his wife Theresa have two
 children and reside in Marietta, Ga.
     Delta Air Lines is proud to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2004. Delta
 is the world's second largest airline in terms of passengers carried and the
 leading U.S. carrier across the Atlantic, offering daily flights to 492
 destinations in 86 countries on Delta, Song, Delta Shuttle, the Delta
 Connection carriers and its worldwide partners. Delta's marketing alliances
 allow customers to earn and redeem frequent flier miles on more than 14,000
 flights offered by SkyTeam, Northwest Airlines, Continental Airlines and other
 partners. Delta is a founding member of SkyTeam, a global airline alliance
 that provides customers with extensive worldwide destinations, flights and
 services. For more information, please visit delta.com.
 
 

SOURCE  Delta Air Lines, Inc.